Happy 3 Years!

Happy Anniversary to my best friend! Being married three years has been incredible! Last year, we had a lot going on around our anniversary (moving, job change, buying a house). This year, the big changes have slowed down a bit. We are enjoying daily life with each other. I am blessed to call Rich my husband. 

We are still learning what it means to be husband and wife. I do not think we will ever stop learning. Rich and I will keep with tradition and watch our wedding video as well as look through pictures. This year, I gave Rich our vows framed and a spot is left for a picture from our celebration. We plan on going to out of town to celebrate with stand up paddling and a great dinner! He surprised me last night with flowers, and a surprise trip to dinner, dessert, and shopping. He even printed out a recipe from pinterest and said, "I thought we could make our own anniversary cake this year!" Since our anniversary falls on a Wednesday this year, Rich is busy with work so we made the most of last night and can't wait to go on our little getaway. 

I am grateful I get to share life with my favorite person.


Quick look over our last three years together...

 1. Honeymoon in St. Lucia 2. Got Tegan 3. Went to Colorado for Brianne's wedding 4. Christmas pictures 5. Rich graduated from seminary 6. Rich's ordination 7. We moved 8. We moved 9. We unpacked 10. Mission trip to NYC 11. Trip to Austin 12. Concerts 13. First Christmas in our new home 14. Celebrated our niece's 1st birthday

That is just a quick glimpse at some highlights over our 3 years together!

Reunion

The day after we got home from the beach we hosted a cookout at our house with some of our dearest friends. Not everyone could be there (we missed you Lasen and Joy), but a good time was had!

Brianne and Erik were in town from Colorado and that brought all of us together. Brianne and I have been friends since we met freshman year at Baylor. Our friendship has overcome distance like I would have never thought possible. We actually have been living in different states longer than we were ever together as friends in Texas. We rotate trips and I had not seen her since her wedding way to long ago..She and I got to spend quality time together we talked about no matter how many years go by, we seem to always pick up right where we left off.

Kayleigh and Craig came in from Austin. You know about Kayleigh and Craig from my other posts. They are our friends and roommates from back in the day, and they live to far for me to like it now. I have seen them a lot since their move and for that I am grateful! Kayleigh always makes me laugh and I like to pick on her. Love you K!

 Katherine and Justin came in all the way from Dallas! :) Katherine and I were roommates at Baylor. She was actually one of my first friends at Baylor. We changed our dorm assignments after meeting in summer school to make sure we could live together. Oh, the memories we have. We had a blast catching up and laughing at things we did in college. In fact, the whole group of us had stories to share with our husbands. Katherine and Justin just celebrated their one year anniversary.

I love that no matter how many years pass we can catch up, love each other through relationships, pray for each other, and find common ground.

We missed having Lasen and Joy there. Lasen was busy running another half marathon in Chicago and Joy was spending time with her family before heading back to Honduras.

Brianne takes beautiful pictures so the girls took advantage of her awesome camera and had a mini photo shoot in our backyard.

Me, Kayleigh, Brianne, and Katherine

love

my sweets

RSBT12

What: Refuge Senior Beach Trip 2012
Where: Gulf Shores, Alabama

It was the first of many senior beach trips with our youth group. Rich worked hard planning such a wonderful trip for everyone. The adults on the trip were Rich, Chris, Jacklyn, and I. A few of us  (cough cough) might have looked at this trip as a bit of a vacation. :) Rich and Chris each drove a 15 passenger van to and from Gulf Shores. The way there took a long time. We had several car sick students. I began to wonder if it was all the junk food on the way there. I have never seen so many people not feeling well from driving. Luckily, it passed and we made it!  Let's just say on the way back everyone took some preventive meds. We left early on a Monday morning and arrived after 9:00 pm on Monday night. 

After getting groceries, and a good night sleep we hit the beach the next day. That is pretty much it. How amazing is that!? Three days of full beach followed by fun dinners out on the town!

Tradition to write our names at every beach

Bloom By Kelle Hampton

This trip was unforgettable. I am going to miss this group so much! We had worship at night and a Baptism on Thursday morning..memories that will last a lifetime! Thanks seniors 2012

P.S. Blogger is being really difficult tonight with pictures and captions. Hopefully I can add more in another post!